Butch Jones
Back in the late 1970s and 1980s, some of Detroit's major drug traffickers became legendary -- including Milton "Butch" Jones, leader of the Detroit gang mYoung Boys, Inc.
The prolific heroin organization used underage kids as carriers, assuming they'd have far less exposure to criminal charges and penalties than adults.
In 1982, leaders Raymond Peoples, Jones and 41 "lieutenants" were indicted. Jones was released after 12 years in federal prison, but was busted again for murder and drug charges. He has served more than 19 years and has a 2027 release date.
The 65-year-old petitions for compassionate release from a federal medical prison in Springfield, Mo., because he has Covid, Paul Egan of the Detroit Free Press reports.
At Jones' prison, 306 inmates and 22 staff are currently Covid positive and nine inmates have died, a court filing says.
